I've watched a number of the u21 games that Southgate has been in charge of. He is a dull manager, with limited ideas and has no clue how to use good players. He is a yes man and will not take this England team forward in any meaningful way.

Massive slice of humble pie here!!

He's done a brilliant job and I admit I was wrong about his style of football.

Great bounce! To be fair we were in a mess at the time, so you can understand the negativity. Just adds to what an incredible job he has done all round though. I hope he's in charge for many years to come!

Great bounce! To be fair we were in a mess at the time, so you can understand the negativity. Just adds to what an incredible job he has done all round though. I hope he's in charge for many years to come!

I am relieved to have not posted on this thread but, like some others, it was due to lack of interest more than any sense of enthusiasm.

Hats off to one or two, though, especially @Thunder Bolt, for repeated and consistent sensible posts.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q93v7hGZA
Glenn Murray's a wizzard, he wears a wizzard's hat, And when he get's his cock out, he says 'I'll score with that'
He scores them with his left ball, he scores them with his right. And then he scores one with his arse, he's ****ing dynamite

I don't see why, all expectations have been surpassed, with everyone now signing Southgate's praises.
At this time yesterday only 3 of us were prepared to say how wrong they were.
Highlighting that shamed a few others into honesty, but as we have an achieve containing gems like:-

"I cant support a big nosed palace prick that ruined 1996 for me. If he went and dunk was in the team. Would I change? 100% yes".

It would seem almost criminal to not see what other gloriously wrong quotes are in there.

“Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.” James E Starrs
Rarely serious, frequently taken seriously.

I don't see why, all expectations have been surpassed, with everyone now signing Southgate's praises.

At the moment we're still in, and everyone's in a good mood. Well, most of us. Looking at some posts on NSC it seems some people are in a terrible mood, but I don't know why. Anyway, right now most of us are happy, and if we lose against Croatia we'll reflect that we got further than we have for decades, that the team played with a good attitude, there was a sense of togetherness, and hopefully we're on the right track - but we'll also reflect that the best team we beat was Colombia, and we only managed that on penalties.

Since 1990 we've lost knock-out games against Argentina, Brazil and Portugal, and we haven't beaten anyone of that level this time either.